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Creation of Equity Law and Its Common Law Relationship

may be heard and judged to be in favour of a plaintiff or a defendant, but the ruling would be incapable of dispensing justice due...

Internet Tax Resources

Code Collection Cornell University (2004). Retrieved on October 11, 2004 from http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode2...

Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Morality

the right to be treated the same as others Conclusion Although we know that the US Constitution guarantees certain rights to its ...

Studies in Contract Case Law

In twelve pages four cases involving contract law are analyzed in terms of contractual issues and legal definitions....

Meanings of Copyright Laws

International and domestic copyright laws are considered in this paper containing 8 pages which includes discussion of Internet co...

On the Commonwealth by Cicero

master and ruler of men, namely God, who is the author of this law, its interpreter, and its sponsor. The man who will not obey it...

The Utilitarian Approach to Obeying the Rules

in question happens to be offensive to seventy-five percent of the population, it is highly likely that the twenty-five percent wh...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

The Laws Governing Adoption and Child Protection in England

human life; as such, a legal shift in focus took place in order to provide them with more emphasis toward rights over and above pr...

English Law Land Legislation in 1925

have come a long way since their inception. As is evidenced by the plethora of historical records, English property law was...

Law, Austin, and Hart

Austin has built this particular theory into what he calls "positivism," which is defined as what the law is, or, in more legal te...

Is There an Incompability Issue Between the European Convention for Human Rights and Adverse Possession?

had abandoned or dispossessed the land. This was seen as legalising the theft of land where an owner did not exercise their rights...

The Debate about Predatory Lending Laws

some examples and the Republican/Democrat dichotomy is a generalization. That said, the model provides a sense of where the people...

Is there an Inherent Bias towards Employers in Unfair Dismissal Law?

this time cases would usually be brought for a breach of contract (Card et al, 2003). Unfair dismissal is first seen in the Indust...

UK Law

In five pages this paper discusses UK law in an overview of governmental structure, the making of laws, and international law with...

Commercial Contract Law in the UK

dispute as to fact (McKendrick, 2000). At first this may appear to have the potential to be an express term, however, in this case...

Australian Courts and Statutory Interpretation

are not necessarily the same words (or meanings) and as a result, the photographer can argue that the purpose of the import was no...

Theories of Feminism and Law

at how this can be applied in critiquing the law. If we consider the concept of the law under critical legal studies the approach ...

1990 Case of the US Supreme Court v. Employment Div., Ore. Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 494 US 872

for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...

Florida State Laws: Underage Alcohol Consumption/Possession And Public Urination

are on their own at school; however, the soiree does not last long once law enforcement officials find out those who are imbibing ...

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

Natural Law and Saint Thomas Aquinas

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

An Exploration of Natural Law

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at natural law. Aquinas' basic formulations are examined, and criticisms are introduce...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Natural Religion in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Thomas Hardys "Tess of the dUbervilles" was written in 1891. This was a time when the role...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

John Locke and Natural Law

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

Judiciary Function Theories

legislation: where the two conflict, national laws are subordinate to those of the EU. If judges are uncertain as to how a ruling ...

Natural Law and the Judiciary

as more and more circumstances present themselves in terms of personal rights which requires the judiciary to rule. The ...

Rebirth of Natural Law: Finnis, Fuller and Devlin

practical reasonableness" that set apart the unsound practices from the sound practices, or thinking, which will ultimately lead t...